Four Types of Public Engagement: Tell, Ask, Discuss, Decide

Draft Chapter 2, Online Public Engagement book

I recently finished a pretty-decent draft of Chapter 2 of the Online Public Engagement Book, due out next year from Routledge Press.

From Online Public Engagement: Why Social Media can’t be your only Public Engagement Tool

This selection is part of a draft chapter in the upcoming book Online Public Engagement, which is due out from Routledge Press in late 2016. This is half of a draft chapter in…

The three main barriers to meaningful public engagement

From The Local Economy Revolution: What’s Changed and How You Can Help

Every week, I open The Local Economy Revolution to a random spot and give you a selection…

What a consultant is good for (from The Local Economy Revolution)

Um, Della. You keep beating up on consultants. You’ve been a consultant for close to 20 years. You still make money consulting.

The Long Hard Slog of Community Revitalization (and how media fails us): A close observer’s

It’s Time to Re-Make Economic Development Incentives. Here’s a Start.

We’ve been talking (or, well, not talking) about incentives in economic development a lot lately. They work, they don’t work. They’re…

No more lipstick on the pig: community branding and marketing from smart people (and, surprise! me)